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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Heard on the radio driving back from the game that Villa’s take over took just 6 days. Apparently the new owners went in with 30 accountants to get it done quickly.

    Is anyone here an accountant??
  • Murphy will be gutted when he finds out he’s mirssef the announcement.
  • Jonathan Acworth? Where has he surfaced from? I recall him from back in the day, always insisting the club sign some unknown player from Tadworth United or some such. Always good for as laugh but wouldn't want to be insside his head!
  • Solidgone said:

    Scoham said:

    Just been told by a member of staff that there was no staff briefing.

    Ah that's more like it!

    Genuinely amazed that people were getting carried away when all we had to go on was a tweet from Acworth who knows nothing, and a post on the Charlton facebook page which is full of absolute shite even at the best of times.

    As if match day staff would be told anything!
    Yeah but it was on Twitter which is always reliable and accurate.
    Yeah and it was confirmed by Acworth so it’s gonna happen innit.
    Bloke shouldn't be allowed out unaccompanied...and definitely not be allowed anywhere near a keyboard!
  • addick05 said:

    Solidgone said:

    Scoham said:

    Just been told by a member of staff that there was no staff briefing.

    Ah that's more like it!

    Genuinely amazed that people were getting carried away when all we had to go on was a tweet from Acworth who knows nothing, and a post on the Charlton facebook page which is full of absolute shite even at the best of times.

    As if match day staff would be told anything!
    Yeah but it was on Twitter which is always reliable and accurate.
    Yeah and it was confirmed by Acworth so it’s gonna happen innit.
    Bloke shouldn't be allowed out unaccompanied...and definitely not be allowed anywhere near a keyboard!
    I bet his mother loves him.
  • Taxi_Lad said:

    vff said:

    Fumbluff said:

    Scoham said:

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    Wait, I know Lucy Hamshere don’t i?
    Take a look at Martyn Don Ounstead on twitter (a 'source' of rumour)- joined February 18 - he hasn't tweeted yet and has 0 followers and following 0 people. Top source :wink:
    I know him. His daughter worked for me when I was in Finance. let’s just say I wouldn’t pin your hopes on what he says!!
    If you want a laugh, get him talking about CARD
  • edited August 2018
    vff said:

    Fumbluff said:

    Scoham said:

    image

    Wait, I know Lucy Hamshere don’t i?
    Take a look at Martyn Don Ounstead on twitter (a 'source' of rumour)- joined February 18 - he hasn't tweeted yet and has 0 followers and following 0 people. Top source :wink:
    For ages on Facebook he was vocally very pro the regime and abusively anti everything about CARD and any form of protesting. Complete twat. Funnily enough, eventually became quiet on the subject when his Roland love in didn't turn out the success he thought.
  • Another 20mins of not life I won’t get back ... back to the sunbed #TeamWIOTOS
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  • its happening !!!!! another deadline !!!! still the good news is when guck all happrns thats another1/2 who can be nailed to the ITK Wall of Shit
  • edited August 2018
    I've been informed that there isn't a takeover, and the rats live feed is infact linked to Charlton life, so he can drink his wine and laugh as we all debate, arguing and fight against each other.

    Honestly, there does not feel like a end to this.
  • I had a few beers, watched us win, had a curry, more beer, sat down to watch a film and then I read our torment is coming to and end. Only then to realise some freak has done a real good job at winding me up.It took the gloss off a great day. Some people lead such strange lives, winding up strangers they will never meet let alone know of. If they were eleven years old I’d understand but this individual is an adult and for many years been living in a fantasy land.
  • Since when did people start believing or getting hopeful at random Facebook posts? You bunch of gullible mugs :wink:
  • Rossman92 said:

    Heard on the radio driving back from the game that Villa’s take over took just 6 days. Apparently the new owners went in with 30 accountants to get it done quickly.

    Is anyone here an accountant??
    Loads. Allegedly 57% of all Charlton fans are accountants, the other 44% are not.

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  • addick05 said:

    Jonathan Acworth? Where has he surfaced from? I recall him from back in the day, always insisting the club sign some unknown player from Tadworth United or some such. Always good for as laugh but wouldn't want to be insside his head!

    He always used to phone up Charlton Live on RTM with Mark Mansfield saying he'd seen the next Pele playing for Erith and Belvedere or some other equally low level side. Steve Portway was his hero.
  • addick05 said:

    Jonathan Acworth? Where has he surfaced from? I recall him from back in the day, always insisting the club sign some unknown player from Tadworth United or some such. Always good for as laugh but wouldn't want to be insside his head!

    I thought he was too busy buying gold to send tweets....
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  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that
  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that

    No one is briefing the stewards about a takeover. Why would they?
  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that

    No one is briefing the stewards about a takeover. Why would they?
    I don’t know, and I don’t believe there to be any ‘fact’ in what is said. But I’m just stating that I’m sure stewards have a briefing meeting pre game, I’m sure the potential for protests and how to react were discussed, and it’s possible an incorrect or misunderstood comment emanated from that.
  • So it ain't happening Monday morning Monday early next week then?

  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that

    No one is briefing the stewards about a takeover. Why would they?
    The way this ‘takeover’ has gone so far it wouldn’t surprise me if it was in their contracts that they have to be consulted and get the final say...
  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that

    No one is briefing the stewards about a takeover. Why would they?
    The way this ‘takeover’ has gone so far it wouldn’t surprise me if it was in their contracts that they have to be consulted and get the final say...
    Roland is selling the club to the stewards ...... ?

  • Beat me to it Henry. The staff member I have knowledge off has no idea about anything takeover. The sort of person who would know if it was told to staff.

    Where do they work? The original tweet referred to academy staff.
  • No more Ackworth talk please.

    Rumour yesterday was started by a tweet saying it was said at a staff briefing. @Henry Irving later said there was no staff briefing. However, I’m sure the stewards have a briefing meeting before every game so it could well have eminated from that

    No one is briefing the stewards about a takeover. Why would they?
    Totally agree - why would they

    but as an aside, and in an early example of the now ubiquitous penny pinching and cost-saving exercises, the main reception phones were being manned by a single junior security steward when I phoned the club sometime last year.

    Needless to say, he had no idea how to transfer my call. I know that these days we are meant to have transferable skills in our workplace - but really?

  • Not saying it's true, but 're. the stewards briefing - I don't think anyone is suggesting they need to be told, but the rumour could've been that something was said during the safety talk before the match along the lines of "You may or may not be aware, but it's comimg from the top that the takeover will be completed next week, so this weekend should be the last for any potential disturbances (protests) relating to the current owner".

    Again, I'm not saying that happened, but I think that is in the context of the rumour started
  • Not saying it's true, but 're. the stewards briefing - I don't think anyone is suggesting they need to be told, but the rumour could've been that something was said during the safety talk before the match along the lines of "You may or may not be aware, but it's comimg from the top that the takeover will be completed next week, so this weekend should be the last for any potential disturbances (protests) relating to the current owner".

    Again, I'm not saying that happened, but I think that is in the context of the rumour started

    There we go...it'll be all over twitter now that a CL mod has just confirmed the takeover.
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